MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 
C. G. LLOYD 
Page 1050 
it was who was responsible for "Corticium tremellinum var. reticula- 
um H seems to have thought. They write "B. & R. " in the advertise¬ 
ments but I have an idea it was a libel on Berkeley to accredit this 
work to him. It appears in Ravenel’s second exsiccatae and Cooke I 
think was responsible for most of the naming of that. At any rate 
it was a most comical bull on the face of it and a.ny one who takes 
it as "authority 1 ' for the name of the plant has about as broad a 
view of the situation as a knife blade. 
LACHNOCLADIUM GEN1CULATUM FROM OTTO A, REINKING, PHILIPPINES 
(Fig, 1949).- No one I believe knows much about the tropical 
Lachnocladiums, I have photographs of all the species I found named 
in the museums and this seems to fit as above. It is a white plant 
with a pubescent appearance but under the microscope the hairs are 
very short and fine. It has hyaline, elliptical, rough spores about 
4X6, The reference of course is doubtful as it was named (as 
Clavaria ) from South America about sixty years ago and is only known 
from the "type locality". We present a figure of the type in case 
of any error. 
TRICHOSCYPHA MAGNISPORA FROM OTTO A. REINKING, PHILIPPINES 
(Fig, 1950 ),- Color brown. Cup infundibuliform, scurfy, about a cm. 
in diameter. Surface scurfy under the lens of large, globose, brown 
cells. Spores extra ordinarily large, fusiform, 10 X 50, acute at 
both ends, hyaline, with faint granular contents. 
This grew on dead wood. In size, shape, color, same as the 
familiar Selerotinia tuberosa. It is exceptional in its unusual 
large spores, more than double the length of any species I find noted. 
Not having worked with the named specimens of Pezizae I would not 
venture on this were it not so much out of the ordinary. The old 
cups are naked but I note a, fringe of multicellular hairs on the 
mouths of young specimen, hence include it in Trichoscypha. One 
would look for the old specimens in Geopyxis, 
EXIDIA BEARDSLEEI FROM GEO. W. MARTIN, NEW JERSEY (Fig. 1951) 
This is evidently the same plant as I named and a much better 
specimen. We would modify the description some. The plant is the 
same 
as 
u 
Coker’s Plate 23, Fig. 
15 also 
be 
color of a raisin to the eye, 
noted by Coker as "color of a raisin". The term is likely to 
loosely applied for Peck described Exidia pinicolor as "raisin 
colored" and Coker says it is the same as Exidia gelatinosa in appear 
-ance. If any raisin had the color of Exidia gelatinosa it would 
not be salable. The soaked plants appear sessile but really have a- 
short sterile base. Basidia are globose, hyaline. Spores 5 X 10 
elongated, slightly curved, apiculate with granular contents. Mr. 
Martin found this on oak and Coker reports three collections on 
locust and oak. The plant therefore does nor appear to be rare and 
no doubt has other names. Peck has named two species that he de¬ 
scribed as "raisin color", Tremella colorata which he claims 
concolorous spores and Tremella pinicola and both may be this 
plant. I never examined Peck's or Gchweinitz's tremellaceous dis¬ 
coveries as not much can be told without soaking them and I did not 
take that liberty. Neither Peck nor Schweinitz knew the elements of 
tremellaceous, basidial characters, however, and were as liable to 
get their "new species" in one genus as another. 
to have 
same 
